Improvement in washing-machines



WE d MEs DODQEJS IMPROVED WAsHINe-MAcmNE PATENTED DEC 271870 I .W'LTH e 856 s can scan WILLIAM JAMES DODGE, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

I Letters Patent No. 110,555, dated December 27, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

The Schedule referredto in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I,-WILLIAM Jsmzes Donne, of the city of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Washing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Nata-re amt Objects of the Invent-ion.

The first part of my invention relates to the construction of a metallic drum, suspended upon gudgeons, and rotated with a crank upon bearings attached to an ordinary boiler, for the purpose of washing clothes.

The novelty of this drum consists in the construction of the buckets, for elevating and discharging the water or suds.

I make these buckets,- the outside to correspond with the outside periphery of the drum, having suitable openings for the admission of the water into the same, and the inside of the buckets so shaped as to form a chamber, having four square sides, inclosed by 'the end plates of the drum,ffor the'clothes to be washed. The drum is opened by a trap, which is attached to the end of the drum by hinges, and fastened by a hook or spring catch at the other end when closed.

' This trap is opened and closed at will when -pnt-' ting in and taking out the clothes, or operating the machine.

The inside of the buckets are made with suitable openings to discharge the water from the same atthe top. this carrying thewater to the top of the I drum before discharging the same into the clothes.-

chamber, getting the greatest percussive efi'eot of the water. v 7 The water is prevented passing the openings when discharged by a suitable partition.

' I corrugate the insides of the buckets, and finishall the ends or'ledges that can come in contact with the clothes-round, thus making the entire clothes- "chamber perfectly smooth, with no projections to catch and tear, or strain the clothes, and having a large rubbing-surface.

' The clothes are lifted and turned'and agitated in This plate is of such width that it can be bent down on each side of the edge of the boiler,-forming .a gripe, and having a long bearing surface on the same.

Connected with one edge of this plate, audnear the ends, are attached two braces or tongues, which lie against the outside of the boiler and extend downward; these are passed through .two loops riveted to the sides of the boiler near the top, preventingany lateral motion; these loops'can be riveted upon any boiler, when the bearings can be attached for using the machine; when not washing, the hearings are withdrawn, and the boiler can-be used for any other purpose. a

As mostfamilies are provided with boilers, by this arrangement the expense of the same is saved, and the cost of the machine brought within the reach of the poor.

Description of Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a side elevation my machine ready for drum.

General Dawn-i1:tion.

In fig. 1- A is the trap. B is the hook, fastening the same.

Y O, the crank. v D, attachment of gudgeon to drum. E E E E, detachable bearings.

F F, loops.

7 G, boiler.

H H, the drum.

In fig. 2-- L L L L are the openings for ingress of water to buckets. K K K K, openings for discharge of water to clothesohamber.

I I I I, partitions.

H H H H are the buckets.

M M M M, corrugated sides of bucket-s, forming sides of clothes-chamber. p

In operating my machine, after thebearings have been placed upon the boiler and drum suspended, and a proper quantity of water put in the boiler, and soap added, the same is placed upon the stove to boil; the

trap being opened, the clothes-chamber is filled two thirds full of clothes;- the trap is then closed and faste'ned; as .ihe water becomes hot the drum .is rotated first inone direction and then in the other; The buckets carry up and discharge the suds upon the clothes while the same are being rolled andrnbbed,

by their own weight, on the surface of the chamber. A few moments washes them clean without injury.

For washing calicoes oi' flannels'the machine is removed from the stove, and the ends properly tempered for the purpose.

The advantages of my invention aligns-simplicity of construction, durability, cheapness, thoroughness of its work, and saving of labor.

Claims.

, I claim as my invention a 1, The buckets, constructed with corrugated plates M M, with inlets and outlets K and L L, division nlates I I, as shown, in combination with the oylin der A and boiler G, as shown.

2. The square clothes-chamber, formed; by the buehets, conetrnctedwit-h corrugated plates M M, in the manner shown, in combination with cylinder A and boiler G, asshown.

3. The detachable bearing, constructed with detachabie plates E E,loops F F, in combination with boiler G, as shown and described.

. \VILLIAM JAMES DODGE,

Witnesses:

WM. J. Done-n, ANN SARAH BALDWIN. 

